Enterprise architecture management

Get complete visibility into your application landscape to design your target architecture, plan migrations, and govern transformation.​
SAP LeanIX

Gain the clarity you need to drive smarter transformation decisions

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One source of truth for your enterprise architecture

Know exactly what applications your business runs on so you can reduce IT spend, prioritize modernization, and drive transformation with confidence.

Accelerate execution

Use continuous visibility into your application landscape to plan transformation, prioritize initiatives, and monitor progress.

Optimize IT spend

Connect technology investment with business impact, eliminate redundancies to unlock budget, and improve planning with clearer insight into complexity and dependency.

Reduce risk

Ensure governance of your IT landscape – including AI and microservices – while monitoring technology lifecycles, modeling the impact of transformation, and maintaining a comprehensive overview of current architecture.

Explore enterprise architecture capabilities

Drive rationalization, modernization, and transformation of your enterprise architecture with reliable, shared transparency and insight.​

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Build and maintain an application inventory

Catalog your applications through seamless imports, automated discovery, and best-practice models to create a single source of truth for the entire organization.

 

Evaluate your current software landscape

Analyze the landscape through a lens of technical and functional fit to reduce complexity and align applications for a more effective and competitive organization.

 

Continuously update and verify architecture data​

Ensure that shared data is accurate and up to date through owner accountability, automated discovery, and surveys.

 

Align IT architecture and business goals

Facilitate strategic alignment with insights, visualized dependencies, and dashboards tracking trends and data quality.

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Right-size your application footprint

Confidently optimize application spend, control costs, and promote organizational agility.

 

Easily scope applications

Manage applications with advanced filters, owner surveys, and cost data from integrated tools.

 

Evaluate applications

Continuously optimize your portfolio using reports, cost analysis, dependency checks, and automated lifecycle categorization.

 

Create a road map

Steer rationalization projects with prioritized initiatives, visual timelines, and future-state impact analysis.

 

Track status and report progress

Monitor rationalization progress through dashboards, executive views, and regular portfolio reviews.

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Become future-ready​

Keep pace with the rapid evolution of technology and your organization’s needs by identifying opportunities to modernize your application landscape.​

 

Evaluate and prioritize modernization candidates​

Use dependency insights, 6R planning, and planned transformation waves to make the best selection.​

 

Easily execute transformations and document changes ​

View all planned changes across your portfolio, filter to focus on specific transformations, execute them with automated progress tracking, and sync updates back to your IT repository with one click.​

 

Offer insights and track your progress​

Use dashboards to keep stakeholders aligned, track modernization progress, and ensure KPIs stay on target.

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Build an inventory of AI technologies

Gain reliable visibility into AI technologies across the organization, from AI-enabled applications to AI agents.

 

Evaluate AI potential

Identify new opportunities for AI-led innovation by mapping AI usage to business capabilities.

 

Track AI approval and adoption

Visualize where AI technologies are across governance and approval processes.

 

Manage AI risk

Identify, evaluate, and address risk across applications and AI agents and flag for mitigation.

 

Plan AI transformation

Create stakeholder alignment in AI initiatives with detailed roadmaps and automated impact updates.

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Move to a modern ERP with confidence

Facilitate a successful ERP transformation with an integrated toolchain that enables full visibility into your application landscape.

 

Align strategy and goals

Develop your target architecture, eliminate blind spots, and unlock growth with high‑impact initiatives.

 

Plan and realize your target state

Bring stakeholders into alignment, minimize risk, and accelerate success with a clear transformation road map.

 

Evolve while maintaining standards

Strengthen governance with clear standards, enhance visibility, and continuously optimize your IT landscape.

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Monitor application lifecycles

Track IT components nearing end-of-life to address risks and manage emerging vulnerabilities before they become threats.

 

Maintain a resilient portfolio

Identify and remove infrastructure components that are reaching their end-of-life or end-of-support.

 

Discover and address risk

Automate inventory building and surface risk to make collaborative remediation decisions with application owners.

 

Mitigate risk and track progress

Proactively reduce risk with upgrade road maps and monitor risk levels with prebuilt dashboards.

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See how customers are succeeding with enterprise architecture management solutions from SAP

Creating a single source of truth for cloud migration

Learn how MediaMarktSaturn used SAP LeanIX to gain full visibility into their IT landscape, rationalize their application portfolio, and track progress of cloud initiatives.

Enhancing decision-making across the organization

Discover how Deutsche Bahn enabled over 27,000 users to get enterprise architecture-driven information, reports, and insights supported by data visualization.

Supporting business risk programs

Learn how SEEK is using enterprise architecture to drive resilience, security, and privacy with SAP LeanIX.

Improving AI adoption and governance

Find out how CapitalLand is expanding AI capabilities and ensuring AI governance with reusable enterprise architecture frameworks from SAP LeanIX.

See what analysts are saying about SAP LeanIX

SAP LeanIX is a Leader for the fifth consecutive year

SAP LeanIX was again named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Architecture Tools.

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The Real ROI: IDC Insights on SAP LeanIX Success

Watch an on-demand webinar to explore IDC’s findings on the business value of enterprise architecture and hear real-world success stories.

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The business value of SAP LeanIX

Read the IDC white paper to discover how SAP LeanIX helps your business save money and improve performance.

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Resources

WHITE PAPER

Enterprise architecture success kit: Everything you need to drive impact with EA

Discover how to build a modern EA practice that drives visibility, optimizes applications, and accelerates business transformation.

REPORT

SAP LeanIX EA Insights 2025

SAP LeanIX surveyed 360 enterprise architects about their priorities, challenges, and perception of enterprise architecture within their organizations.

WHITE PAPER

The definitive guide to business capabilities

Create a business capability map to align technology with strategy, optimize costs, and mitigate obsolescence risks.

EXPERT GUIDE

Applying the Gartner TIME Framework for application rationalization

Maximize application portfolio value by categorizing systems with Gartner’s TIME framework to guide rationalization decisions.

POSTER

5 steps to application modernization

Download a poster outlining the five steps customers need to conduct before starting the application modernization journey.

ONE-PAGER

The application rationalization framework

Streamline your application landscape using a structured framework to cut costs, reduce complexity, and enhance efficiency.

Frequently asked questions

Enterprise architecture is a strategic framework that aligns an organization’s business strategy, processes, information, and technology to achieve its goals. It consists of all the technology a company relies on along with relevant dependencies and interconnections. Enterprise architecture transformation starts with creating a business capability model and mapping applications to it. This allows companies to ensure that technology supports the business while also enabling the rationalization and modernization of the application and broader IT landscape.

SAP LeanIX is a cloud-based enterprise architecture management platform that helps organizations visualize, analyze, and manage their IT landscapes. It provides a centralized source of truth for applications, technology components, risks, and roadmaps, enabling faster decisions, improved transparency, and more effective digital transformation.

SAP LeanIX features base AI capabilities including AI-powered inventory prompts, AI-assisted text creation, AI-generated context, and AI-supported translation. SAP LeanIX also offers an inventory builder driven by AI that automatically extracts architecture elements from diagrams and images.

No. SAP LeanIX is a standalone solution that helps map, model, and manage any enterprise architecture. However, when used in conjunction with SAP Signavio, WalkMe, and other SAP solutions, it becomes an integral part of an effective transformation strategy.

Yes, SAP LeanIX works with any technology landscape, and our product road map focuses on continuing to develop system-agnostic capabilities.  However, integrations with SAP solutions make SAP LeanIX particularly well-suited for discovery and management of your SAP landscape.

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